right now, their economy was really put in reverse. and so interesting thing is republicans here in the united states are pursuing a european style austerity program because their budget would keep in place the sequester cuts. the very deep sequester cuts. and when it comes to reducing the deficit as you've said, they refuse to close one single tax loophole for the purpose of deficit reduction. they acknowledge that there are all sorts of tax breaks out there in the tax code. they just don't want to close a single one of them in order to reduce the deficit. they will only close those loopholes if it means reducing the tax rate on high income individuals. >> bill: so peter let's post on our web site a link, maybe the phone number for the speaker's office so people can get in and suggest do the right thing. we're not calling for anything special. just regular order. >> regular order on the budget. >> bill: conference, members of the conference committee the senate and house can get together and maybe we can resolve this budget issue. con